From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Jul 25 5:31: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7548A37B5AB for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 05:30:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA13113; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 13:26:43 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 13:26:43 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Jim Mock Cc: Udo Erdelhoff , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Foo Message-ID: <20000725132643.A12969@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <20000725001225.V66732@nathan.ruhr.de> <20000724201238.A20390@luna.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000724201238.A20390@luna.osd.bsdi.com>; from jim@luna.osd.bsdi.com on Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 08:12:38PM -0700 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 08:12:38PM -0700, Jim Mock wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jul 2000 at 00:12:25 +0200, Udo Erdelhoff wrote: > > Hi, > > while poking around the doc dir, I've found a couple instances > > articles that use to close the current in-line element. Jade > > accepts these constructso they're obviously not illegal. On the other, > > I don't think they're good style, either. > > It's valid DocBook, IIRC, so that's why it doesn't complain about them, > but I do agree with you on the style point though. > > > Fixing them should be rather easy. Opinions? > > I've been changing the ones I've come across -- I think changing them is > a good thing. Yes, it's valid, and no, we don't encourage it :-) This should really be in the primer style guide. N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message